[Mollypitcher1]

Frankly, I question the “Freedoms” of many on the list.

[loveliberty2]

In a 1987 Bicentennial volume entitled, Our Ageless Constitution, an essay entitled, "Will the Great American Experiment Succeed?" the following section concluded with these remarks:

Will The Experiment Succeed?

It was John Adams who said: "The foundation of every government is some principle or passion in the minds of the people." Clearly, the Founders' passion was for liberty, and in order to secure that liberty, they sought out and incorporated into the United States Constitution those ideas and principles embodied in the Declaration of Independence.

The French historian, Guizot, once asked James Russell Lowell, "How long will the American republic endure?" Lowell replied: "As long as the IDEAS of the men who founded it continue dominant."

Herein lies the answer to the question, "Will the Experiment Succeed?"

It can and will succeed IF the motivating "principle or passion in the minds of the people" is LIBERTY, and if that passion causes them to exert the determination and will to complete the needed restoration of the IDEAS upon which the great American experiment was based.

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Our Ageless Constitution, 

W. David Stedman & La Vaughn G. Lewis, Editors (Asheboro, NC, W. David Stedman Associates, 1987) Part VII:  ISBN 0-937047-01-5

The foundation idea expressed in the revolutionary document called The Declaration of Independence was recognition of Creator-endowed, thus inalienable, rights. "The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them." - Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of Independence

This foundation idea of America's Constitutional protections for individuals has been largely ignored in recent decades.

Aleksander Solzhenitsyn put the situation into perfect perspective when, during his Templeton Address in 1983, he stated,

"Men have forgotten God; that's why all this is happening."

In a 1987 Bicentennial volume entitled, Our Ageless Constitution, an essay entitled, "Will the Great American Experiment Succeed?" the following section concluded with these remarks:

Will The Experiment Succeed?

It was John Adams who said: "The foundation of every government is some principle or passion in the minds of the people." Clearly, the Founders' passion was for liberty, and in order to secure that liberty, they sought out and incorporated into the United States Constitution those ideas and principles embodied in the Declaration of Independence.

The French historian, Guizot, once asked James Russell Lowell, "How long will the American republic endure?" Lowell replied: "As long as the IDEAS of the men who founded it continue dominant."

Herein lies the answer to the question, "Will the Experiment Succeed?"

It can and will succeed IF the motivating "principle or passion in the minds of the people" is LIBERTY, and if that passion causes them to exert the determination and will to complete the needed restoration of the IDEAS upon which the great American experiment was based.

---

Our Ageless Constitution, 

W. David Stedman & La Vaughn G. Lewis, Editors (Asheboro, NC, W. David Stedman Associates, 1987) Part VII:  ISBN 0-937047-01-5

The foundation idea expressed in the revolutionary document called The Declaration of Independence was recognition of Creator-endowed, thus inalienable, rights. "The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them." - Thomas Jefferson, Author of the Declaration of Independence

This foundation idea of America's Constitutional protections for individuals has been largely ignored in recent decades.

Aleksander Solzhenitsyn put the situation into perfect perspective when, during his Templeton Address in 1983, he stated,

"Men have forgotten God; that's why all this is happening."

[RetiredArmy]

‘Merica is finished. The nation is rapidly sliding into the obis. ‘Merica is toast, mostly burned on both sides.

[MeganC]

When the police are openly calling for the militarization of police forces (and the defacto imposition of a permanent state of martial law) it’s hard to see how we can remain free.

https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2015/11/american-police-calling-for-further-militarization-in-wake-of-paris-attacks/

[Pollster1]

Freedom? Under a petty tyrant whose only priority is to “fundamentally transform” a country that used to be the most free and most productive country in the world. Surely no one expected freedom to survive these eight terrible years.